Teach For America works in partnership with 350 urban and rural communities across the country to expand educational opportunity for children. Founded in 1990, Teach For America recruits and develops a diverse corps of outstanding leaders who make an initial two-year commitment to teach in high-need schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to end educational inequity. 

Today, Teach For America is a force of 66,000 alumni and corps members working in more than 9,000 schools nationwide in pursuit of profound systemic change. From classrooms to districts to state houses across America, they are reimagining education to realize the day when every child has an equal opportunity to learn, lead, thrive, and co-create a future filled with possibility.

For the last 30 years, Teach For America Bay Area has been bringing diverse teachers to classrooms in underserved communities, creating a talent pipeline to education and every arena that influences it, and closing the achievement gap. The support of our generous donors makes this work possible.

In the Bay Area, 150 corps members reach over 6,000 students daily throughout Richmond, Oakland, San Francisco, and South Bay. 

TFA is one of California’s most diverse source of teachers: Only 1/3 of teachers in California identify as teachers of color, while 85% of our educators identify as a teacher of color or come from a low-income background. Research shows that teachers who match the race or ethnicity of their students drive positive outcomes for kids: better attendance, fewer suspensions, higher test scores and graduation rates.

We drive systemic and enduring change. Our force of alumni close the achievement gap from schools, systems, and critical arenas that touch education. Two-thirds of the Bay’s top schools serving low-income students are led and staffed by TFA educators.